Dec. 13, 2023, 9:51 p.m. | hil

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Do you know you can scrape a website from your command line? With curl, you have a simple tool at your fingertips, ready to collect data from the web with minimal fuss. Let's explore how powerful curl is for web scraping!



Warning: In web scraping, cURL can be used only for retrieving the raw HTML data, but not parsing or extracting specific data.






What is cURL?


cURL, is a command line tool and library for transferring data with …

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